A 2-year old Yellow(?) Malayan Coconut tree growing by the water in Rockledge, Florida (32955). In the last 1 year that the tree had been in the ground in the location shown, it had been flooded 3 times for a maximum of about 3 days.

3 Coconuts in 3 different stages of sprouting in Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami, Florida (33156). The root can be seen on the Coconut at the bottom of the photo.

Coconut in my living-room.

A freshly dug hole of Coconut Crabs and the fallen Coconut that they have eaten in Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami, Florida (33156). Every single ounce of white meat from inside the Coconut's hard shell had been meticulously removed and devoured.

This photo captures a rare phenomena of an incomplete job by a Coconut Crab in Miami\\\'s Fairchild Tropical Garden (33156). In a hurry a Crab possibly tried in vain, under some threat, to take home a large chunk of meat after dislodging it from the shell.

Fallen Coconuts are rounded up and then moved to adjacent moist, humid and semi-shaded areas like this next to Mangroves for sprouting in Miami's Fairchild Tropical Garden (33156).

LOL, is this a fraud or not? Of course it is, but I had to take this picture :^D

The gradually changing colors of the Red Malayan Dwarf Coconuts as they ripen in a tree in Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami (33156).

A bunch of unripe (red) Coconuts hang next to a bunch of
ripe (brown) ones from a Red Malayan Dwarf Coconut tree in Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami (33156). One ripe one had
already fallen off and the rest will follow soon.

About 24 inches above the ground, a young Coconut hangs from a Green Malayan Dwarf Coconut tree in Indian Harbour Beach, Florida (Zone 10a).

Coconut palms on the coast of Ghana, Africa, Auguat 1960

Coconut Palms on the coast of Ghana, Africa, August 1960

Toddy-tapper, following his trail through the Coconut Palms in Sri Lanka, July 1964. Toddy is made by fermenting the juice from the cut flower stems of the coconut palms. Note the jars placed over the cut flower stems in the trees.

Coconut Palms, showing jars over the cut flower stems for collecting the juice that is fermented to make Toddy. Sri Lanka, July 1964.

Coconut Palm in Bali, Indonesia, October 1990

First shoot emerging from newly germinated Coconut in Queensland, Australia, July 1993

Miami Beach 2004.

Coconut Palm, Young (Tovis Bratsburg)

The young and growing coconut palm (not yet bearing flowers or coconuts).

permanent damage to trunk from climbing with spikes, to get leaves and fruit. Waikiki Beach Hawaii

Typical Hawaiian beach scene. ONe of few plants that thrive in salty sandy soils

A warm sunset on the Big Island of Hawaii. Coconut palms gently swaying in the breeze.

3 and a half month old Coconut in Southern California!

One of the very few surviving cocos nuficera in California. This one is on Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach, 45 Miles south of Los Angeles. Image by Kylecawaza

Another shot of the Coconut Palm in Newport Beach, CA. Image by Kylecawaza.

Driving through Pinones coastal forest, Puerto Rico.

Coconuts being sold in the street, Bangalore India

Bangalore, India. Growing between the rooftops.

Close up of blossoms and fruit in various stages of maturity. Bangalore, India

6 Month old coconut (Golden Malayan) growing in San Francisco, it is now pushing its 5th set of leaves! doing great!

6 Month old coconut (Golden Malayan) growing in San Francisco, it is now pushing its 5th set of leaves! doing great!

Branched tree on Ramrod Key, FL. 2006

Coconut Palm, taken in Jamaica

Coconut Palms in Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden

Can't have too many pictures of coconut palms! In Hilo, Hawaii

natural leaf-base scars in trunk (not man-made)

A young Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera) that has emerged from a coconut that has fallen to the ground in Maui. The red blooms on the ground are red tulip tree blooms.

A recently emerged Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera) with a tree frog on the back of a leaf (as observed in Maui)

A view of the top roots emerging from a young Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera) in Maui.

A view of the bottom roots of a young Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera) in Maui.

You can see different stages here: flowers, fruit formation, fruit and the fruit-disposed off part.

Beautiful palms lining the beach in Fort Lauderdale, FL

One of my Coconuts. Adult Pothos love to climb them.

Three Coconut Palms on the beach in Fort Lauderdale, FL - These handle salt well.

Add sunny window and Coconut palm indoors, does pretty good..

Indoor palm fronds...

With conch,coral sand and driftwood.Your own private tropical beach....

Plants sold in Europe are weak and lanky due to being mass grown in a shadehouse

Denver Botanic Gardens 07/21/2009.

10 year-old coconut growing indoors in Phoenix, AZ

Sprouting

This was found inside another nut. The branch-like things were out of the 'eye' and the conical thing inside the hard shell with the kernel.